Month: March 2015

Posted on: March 28, 2015 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Lawson Garrett Language of Love Single Review

Lawson Garrett has created a style of music that is deeply emotive and honest. The rich sounds that issue forth during Language of Love tie together James Taylor and Randy Newman, adding hints of CCR and even blues legends like Ray Charles into the mix. The rich production of this track makes it ready for radio rotation, while there are enough twists and turns here to keep the interest high…

Posted on: March 28, 2015 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Lazy J and the Dirty Shuffle S/T EP Review

Lazy J and the Dirty Shuffle’s Double Down Boogie is a track that blends together blues with a down and dirty rock style. The sizzling guitars that open this track will immediately draw listeners in, while the lush production of the track makes this cut ready for rock rotation. There is a certain emotional intensity to this opening composition that requires no vocals; the interplay between the guitars, drums, and…

Posted on: March 28, 2015 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Joe Holywood Casa Blue

Trust Me is a track from Casa Blue, Joe Holywood’s new EP that ties together fifties and sixties crooners, seventies country, and a full compliment of The Smiths to create something wholly unique. Over the course of two and a half minutes, Holywood is able to create a track that will stick with listeners long after Casa Blue has ceased to spin. Take It All In is a high-water mark…

Posted on: March 28, 2015 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Ransom Price Interview

We sat down today with Mike Ransom of Ransom Price. My Kidnap Money is his latest album, and is due out on April 7th. What was the recording process like for the disc? Ransom Price is essentially a studio project, so we didn’t face the usual deadlines of trying to get an album finished up prior to a tour or anything like that.  Additionally, My Kidnap Money is being released…

Posted on: March 27, 2015 Posted by: David Kirkwood Comments: 0

Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments – Straight to Video

Listening to this album was like a nostalgic syringe being shot right into my lower left frontal lobe and I slumped over into a beautiful Columbus lost great shadow. I’m not saying Columbus, Ohio is missing anything short of great musicians but it has been awhile since I have heard a record that hits and cuts so deep. Straight to video is almost perfect from start to finish except for…

Posted on: March 25, 2015 Posted by: Jocelyn Probasco Comments: 0

Hustler White DVD Review

Hustler White, a campy, throwback-style piece of queer cinema with nods to earlier art films, manages to defy most common genres. It is not quite an art film, not quite a comedy, and not quite an action movie.

Posted on: March 24, 2015 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

K. Tha Producer Interview

Hello, K. Tha Producer. Your current mixtape (out 3/27) is The Therapist. What significance does the mixtape’s title hold for you? The title of the mixtape came about from just listening to what most people were saying music does for them.

Posted on: March 24, 2015 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Ransom Price My Kidnap Money CD Review

Radar Contact Lost has tremendous momentum from its onset, created through a wall of fuzz and a set of vocals that take up hints of Screeching Weasel and Green Day. The production is professional enough to let each constituent element of Ransom Price shine, but close and comfy enough to lend an honest and earnest air to the 10 tracks on My Kidnap Money. Fire Escape has a solid guitar/drum…

Posted on: March 24, 2015 Posted by: John B. Moore Comments: 0

Song One (DVD)

The Anne Hathaway-starring indie Song One could have been a solid, sweet film if it were not so wrapped up in trying to be too many other things. The movie casts Hathaway – who also produced – as Franny the older sister to Henry, who dropped out of college to be a musician. Franny, who has been estranged from her brother and mom, comes back home after her brother is…

Posted on: March 24, 2015 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Art of a Sinner Interview

We were able to speak with Auburn, Indiana’s own Art of A Sinner. Can you introduce yourselves? Adam Hudson, Guitar. Jeremy Elliott, Vocals. Joe Contreras, Guitar. Davis Reid, Keys & Synth. Kade Edwards, Drums.